Talk:Alcohol advertising/Archives/2018

Completing a review, people!
I'm completing a review of the literature on the effects of alcohol advertising and the statement removed from this page, "Scientific research around the world conducted by governments, health agencies and universities has, over decades, been unable to demonstrate any causal relationship between alcohol beverage advertising and alcohol consumption. It has, however, demonstrated that effective alcohol campaigns can increase both a producer's market share and also brand loyalty (Federal Trade Commission; Fisher; Frankena et al.; Sanders).," appears to be accurate.

If you know of any scientific peer-reviewed publications that have demonstrated a causal relationship between alcohol advertising and alcohol consumtion, please add it and modify the removed statement to reflect your discovery.AssocProfMarketing 18:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

There is an article from the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicien, Vol. 160, Jan 2006 on page 18-24 which found a significant correlation between youth drinking and their exposure to advertisements.

There is another article in the American Journal of Health Behavior Nov. 2004 vol. 28 issue 6, pag 498-509 which finds a significant rise in youth drinking based upon exposure to advertising.

Danielralphberg 14:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

There is a professor named David Justin Hanson who is changing this page to reflect his view that alcohol advertising does not affect consumption of alcohol. He is using his own website as a reference, and is erasing previous references to the scientific literature. He is also changing the content without saying anything in the discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielralphberg (talk • contribs) 05:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest you go to pubmed.gov and run a few searches on alcohol advertising and behavior. There are quite a few articles on this subject in the peer-reviewed literature. Danielralphberg 14:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

At the end of the article's first paragraph is a five-word sentence referring to alcohol advertising. The sentence is: "It should be banned altogether." This is a textbook example of two things: 1.) Random contributors inserting their personal opinions into what would normally, in legitimate encyclopedias, be a neutrally worded article, and 2.) Just another unfortunate example of why the Wikipedia experiment can never be considered a reliable source of information.74.196.127.243 (talk) 15:38, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If you see a problem, by all means Be Bold and remove it.Beakerboy (talk) 12:38, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

I have edited the introductory paragraph to be more neutral by: - Adding citations where tagged as needed or where obviously needed, to objectively support the opposing research positions. - Changing the language in the last few sentences, which previously was not quite neutral due to emphasising that causation had not been proven. The citations added were mainly of sources already mentioned in the References, and Further Reading sections, as well as the talk page, by Danielralphberg and 'AssocProfMarketing'. I have overall attempted to make the introduction accurately reflect the state of thought regarding alcohol advertising causing consumption, which is one of continuing debate. Sheev1 13:21, 26 March 2018 (AEDT)